What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026)

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the July 2026 registry release, including major improvements and updates to ports. It highlights the addition of new ports and enhancements in supply-chain metadata quality.

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This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2026.07.29 registry release and the 2026-07-13 , 2026-07-24 , and 2026-07-27 tool releases. These updates include major SBOM improvements in vcpkg-tool, 302 updated ports including multiple major library upgrades, and other minor improvements and bug fixes.

While vcpkg supports a much larger variety of target platforms and architectures (as community triplets ), the list above is validated to ensure updated ports don’t break other ports in the catalog.

vcpkg couldn’t be where it is today without contributions from our open-source community. Thank you for your continued support! The following people contributed to the vcpkg , vcpkg-tool , or vcpkg-docs repos in this release (listed by commit author or GitHub…

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